Translation from English to Czech and from Czech to English
Czech Translation – Czech & English Language Pair
HumanTranslation focuses on fast and convenient Czech translation services provided by a pool of experienced native speakers who have been cooperating with us for a long time and whose texts have the best customer satisfaction ranking. Our experts have different areas of expertise to enable us to render a wide range of texts in English and Czech: no matter whether you have IT, technical, legal, medical, or automotive documentation, we will find a specialist who can handle it.
HumanTranslation specializes both in English-to-Czech and Czech-to-English translation services – so if you are looking for a language service provider to deal with both languages, you’ve found one.
Document Translation
Do you need to have documents translated from or into Czech? We can ensure good-quality translation using any file format you provide and additionally offer DTP services at an extra fee.
Documents sent to us in PDF format and so on are charged at an ordinary rate. However, be prepared to pay an increased rate if the document is handwritten as it simply requires more effort.
Certified Translation
Certified and standard translation services differ:
- Only a certified (sworn) translator has the right to provide these services
- Translation is done according to certain rules, and there is no place for creativity here: what you are required to do is to provide an accurate translation
- The final package includes the original, the translation, and the translator’s affidavit
- The affidavit contains the translator’s statement that the translation is complete and accurate, and it is signed and sealed.
If you need to submit documents to an official educational, governmental, or legal institution, you will usually be required to provide a certified translation. Contact our manager to get a quote.
Just for your reference, notarization is another degree of translation quality guarantee: you get the same package as in the certified translation, plus the notary additionally confirms the translator’s identity. Keep in mind that the notary does not check the translation quality.
Language Facts
- There are no strict word order rules in Czech: you can freely play with words and shift their position to emphasize your thought.
- Some phrases in Czech can contain consonants only – and this is just because consonants can play the role of vowels.
- There are Czech words in English, including polka, pistol, and dollar(!).
- If you know Czech, you will also understand its close neighbor, Slovak.
- One of the most difficult rules in Czech is the use of capital letters, and a surprisingly low 59% of native speakers can deal with capitalization correctly.
- here are a lot of diminutives in Czech, and you can freely invent new words as each word may have several diminutive degrees.
Language Tips:
When you translate, read the text first and think of the voice of the person who seems to be reading the document aloud. What is it like? Strict, friendly, creaky? It sometimes gives a key to how to render the text in the target language.
Translators often struggle with the level of formality to choose. When things are not that clear, some of us tend to be more formal to be on the safe side, while others relax the tone not to sound stiff. Think of your preferred way of handling such things – and adopt the other two approaches as well. You should be able to freely sound formal, informal, and neutral because you need to (not just prefer to), and this will add a lot to your professionalism in texts translation.
